Clinical Team Lead - Mississauga, Canada - Trillium Health Partners

Trillium Health Partners

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Mississauga, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job Description:

Position:
Clinical Team Leader

Department:
Social Work & Discharge Planning

Posting ID:

Status:
Temporary Full-Time months)

Site:
Credit Valley Hospital and Reactivation Care Centre (200 Church St, York)

Role Level:
AH11.7 ($39.79-$50.79)

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- salary commensurate with experience_

Hours of Work/Shifts:
Monday-Friday (regular business hours)

Posted:
February 16, 2023

Internal Deadline:
February 23, 2023

Trillium Health Partners (THP) is one of the largest community-based acute care facilities in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, and the Reactivation Center at Humber.

Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

Our Mission
:
A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community

Our Values
:
Compassion, Excellence, Courage

Our Goals
:
Quality, Access, Sustainability

Our Enablers
:
People, Education, Innovation, Research

The primary goal of CTL is to enhance and maintain optimal patient flow through and out of Trillium Health Partners, while upholding high standards of patient experience, safety and quality transition planning.

The CTL will maintain a dual focus on supporting specific cases while maintaining a high level over site of the site
- specific daily flow operations. This position will lend support and oversight to the timely access to Long Term Care, Rehabilitation, Retirement Homes, Complex Continuing Care and Community Support Services. The CTL understands the fundamental Flow and Capacity theories and practical challenges of a hospital system and works to achieve that patients are served in the right place, at the right time, receiving the right care through daily interactions with interprofessional staff and planned education activities/initiatives.

Qualifications

Masters degree in Social Work is required
Current registration and membership with OCSWSSW
25 years clinical experience in an acute care hospital setting
Broad experience in discharge planning is essential
Demonstrated excellence in conflict management, critical thinking, problemsolving and decisionmaking; be able to function in high paced and stressful situations while maintaining focus and composure
Current knowledge of health care trends, government relations, relevant public policy developments; in order assess current and future transition directions and resources
Extensive knowledge of local community resources and initiative to proactively search for new resources
Manage and cultivate strategic partnerships both internal and external to the organization
Knowledge and/or experience working with Adult Learning Principles
Experience with legislation that governs Public Hospitals (Public Hospitals Act, Substitute Decisions Act, Consent to Treatment Act, Mental Health Act, etc.)
Extensive knowledge how to effectively serve an increasingly aging and diverse population with complex medical, functional, cognitive and psychosocial needs
Experience monitoring and analyzing patient flow metrics; with an ability to highlight trends and areas of focus for the Manager
Expert written and verbal communication, collaboration, organizational and problem solving skills
Proven project management and change management experience
Experience with Meditech is a strong asset
Ability to work independently and collaboratively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders

Responsibilities

Optimizing Patient Flow

The CTL will review and act upon information (as appropriate) captured in Daily Flow Reports and Daily Update Reports, in terms of targeting units or team members requiring increased support.

This position will further, review daily if not multiple times daily, the Capacity Management Dashboard to understand and react to the information regarding demand for hospital services (including but not limited to:

attend specific unit rounds to support regular and timely discharges; engage appropriate SW/DCP team members in communication and strategy to alleviate patient flow pressures, etc.)

Works collaboratively with Patient Flow Team Members (Admissions Coordinators; Patient Care Coordinators; Flow Facilitators) to optimize internal flow
The Clinical Team Lead regularly and routinely attends multidisciplinary rounds to help support optimal patient flow and be another discharge planning resource to the team
Provide updates to Social Work/Discharge Planner Group regarding changes in community resource availability (including but not limited to: Idle MH LTCH bed availability; Convalescent Care availability, RH policy changes, etc.)
Highlight to Manager, any opportunities to standardize processes and practices across site, toward the organization's aim to have a common patient experien